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severe pain, and, mounting once more, proceeded toward Sheridan's front.
It was near noon now; and, as he went, a despatch overtook him. Time and further mischances had brought Lee to the point.
He requested an interview for the purpose of surrender according to the terms offered.
As Grant read and understood that here in his hand at last lay peace, all pain left him. He dismounted, and by the roadside wrote his answer.
While he was doing this, and hurrying forward to the meeting, Lee some six miles away lay waiting.
Stretched on a blanket under an apple-tree by the road, he contemplated the sunshine that bathed Virginia.
Of his thoughts, also, only his actions reveal anything.
When Grant's note reached him, he rose, and had soon ridden into Appomattox Court-house, and in a house there waited for Grant.
In a little while Grant reached the grassy village street; and there, dismounted,
Boston. Small, Maynard and Company. 1901.
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